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A symbol-based communication app custom-built for AAC.
Snap™ Core First® offers your child the opportunity to express what they truly mean. Designed for all ages and stages of language development, this AAC app is accessible via touch, eye gaze or switch and offers clear speech output. Caregivers will find it simple to set up, edit, track progress and get support. Snap Core First is available as a standalone app or pre-loaded on a selection of devices.
Not using iOS? We also offer Snap Core First for Windows.
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Learning language, achieving literacy, and becoming an independent communicator is a journey with many stages. Snap Core First meets each communicator wherever they are on that journey and evolves with them as they grow. It's designed to be the most intuitive and engaging symbol-based app on the market. With a variety of pre-designed button layouts, a full range of text to speech voices, free cloud storage backup and smart assistants, everything is easy to set up and ready to use.
Start communicating immediately
with tools and supports, like core words, quick phrases, and topics, that allow a communicator to initiate and guide the interaction.
Created to be the best
with years of research, feedback, and user testing. In user testing of SLPs and educators, 9 out of 10 tested preferred Snap over competitor apps.
Built for confidence
with the easiest navigation, no instructions are necessary, and a toolbar is always available with tools to support you as you move through the system.
Designed for easy customization and consistency
with a new user interface for easy editing and grid size changes, standard functions for dragging and dropping, quicker actions for linking pages, and a new Search tool for finding words quickly.
Snap Core First is the pinnacle in communication software for symbol-supported communicators and is designed to be the easiest to use, most intuitive, and consistently arranged solution available on the market, for both the user and the communication partner. Individuals of all ages with speech and language disabilities, including those with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and other intellectual disabilities, can all benefit from Snap Core First.
Snap Core First builds on Tobii Dynavox's years of experience delivering AAC solutions. It brings the best parts of our previous titles together in a focused, solutions for symbol communication. The focus on AAC users who primarily use symbol-based communication has allowed us to create an intuitive user experience unlike anything before.
"Snap Core First is so fast and responsive! When you touch a symbol, you get immediate voice output. This ensures the motor, auditory, and visual input the user gets when they activate a button is simultaneous and that helps the child learn!"
The success of the Snap Core First platform stems from the cohesive use of the Core Word framework, topics, quick phrases, behavior supports, word lists, and keyboards that let a user naturally interact. Core First, which has its roots in research by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helps the communicator continuously build vocabulary and skills and takes advantage of motor learning by introducing new vocabulary systematically and purposefully, which allows users to move up or down and always know where to find vocabulary. It is built on three pillars for communication success: growth, engagement, and literacy.
Statistically, literacy rates are extremely low for those who use AAC to communicate. In fact, according to "Literacy Intervention for Transition-Aged Youth: What Is and What Could Be," by B. Foley and Julie A. Wolter, 90% of students in America with complex communication needs enter adulthood without acquiring functional literacy skills. Lack of literacy is an enormous barrier to education, independence, and many of life's opportunities. With Snap, we are providing the best symbol-based communication experience available but also what is needed for a parent, teacher, or therapist and a child to work together so that the child can become a successful communicator, learn language, and ultimately achieve literacy.
Core First allows its users to be engaged fast, real-time conversations about topics that are important to them, which leads to engagement. These are the features that make real-time conversations possible! In Core First, you can easily find the right kind of message for any level of communication, including the Core word page, a library of topics covering many situations and events. Among the tools are also Quickfires, keyboards, word lists and behavior support. And of course, it's a snap to add buttons on the go! It enables communications in a variety of situations and environments, which leads to greater user engagement.
We believe that communicators should have access to literacy tools, no matter your starting level. Core First will help you continuously sharpen your skills and build upon them- making literacy possible. In this application, you can start at the most basic level- making literacy possible! We also offer a variety of tools to help pave the way; from Snap Scene, which engage emerging communicators to become literate with Core First Learning and The Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL) program.
Snap Core First is supported by an unparalleled ecosystem of content and a library of resources to help you learn and grow your literacy and communication skills. Created by leading professionals in the field, Snap Core First's broad range of supports will help to ensure successful language development.
Pathways for Core First
Pathways is a free, one-of-a-kind companion app for Core First. Designed to facilitate successful use of Snap Core First software, Pathways is a unique learning gateway that will enhance your partner communication skills and features an interactive goal setting tool, lesson plans, and materials, cheat sheets, and videos to help you make the biggest impact on user success.
Pathways is also available as an online version accessible directly from your web browser.
Core First Lessons and Core First Books
Free, downloadable Core First Lessons are designed to support the numerous free Core First Books we offer. The lessons focus on 3 key goals - to teach what each word means or how it is used; the position of the word in the system; and finally how the words work in connected text.
Access social media, entertainment, medical support and environmental control via Alexa, Google Home and Siri. These smart assistants are integrated into page sets. They support communication and access to information; promote engagement with people; and provide control of things such as music, games, television and lights.
With Snap Core First, you can back up all your files to the cloud via myTobiiDynavox.com, ensuring you'll never have to worry about losing what you have created. Also, this is an excellent way to practice remote editing and modeling. Remote editing is important for parents or SLPs who want to make changes to their child's pagesets while their child is still using the device for communication, and modeling is one of the best strategies for teaching someone how to use the device.
The Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL) Reading Program
The ALL program, created by Dr. Janice Light, Ph.D. and Dr. David McNaughton Ph.D., of Penn State University, is an evidence-based approach designed specifically to teach basic reading skills to students who are non-verbal and require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
Boardmaker Student Center app
Boardmaker Online offers a host of tools to support Speech Language Pathologists and Special Ed Teachers as they provide instruction to students. The Boardmaker Student Center app is where students of all abilities can go to access activities assigned to them through Boardmaker Online. The app brings the power of personalized visual supports and symbol-adapted educational materials.
Live and Recorded Webinars
There are an abundance of live and recorded webinars available for free on TobiiDynavox.com. Webinars ranging from beginner to advanced will be available for Snap Core First. Some webinars will be eligible for ASHA CEU credits.
Our products are the innovative result of a highly-experienced team from Tobii Dynavox made up of educators, clinicians, PhDs, engineers, and professionals who are passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential. We work every day to help people communicate and achieve literacy so they can live richer and more independent lives.
Service and support is easily available from one place, Tobii Dynavox, for all your Indi needs. Indi comes with a 2-year manufacturer's warranty and 90 days of telephone support to get you up and running quickly.
The optional Tobii Dynavox Care warranty comes with telephone support and covers any device repairs, no questions asked! Contact your local sales consultant for pricing.
Tobii Dynavox also offers the most comprehensive support in the industry. Find all our support information at: www.tobiidynavox.com/support. In addition to email support, you can browse our knowledge base and find plenty of other support materials.
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Boardmaker Activities: Interactive Boardmaker activities can be played within the Snap software. Engage in books, games, math tools, and have access to communication within the Snap software.
New Search Options: There are now two filters you can apply when using the search feature. You now have the option of showing hidden paths as well as showing duplicate matches.
Set Up Wizard Improvements: All of the options during the onboarding process are more visible and easy to use.
Automatic Symbol Set Update: New symbol sets will automatically install and update when you start up Snap Core First.
Find our complete list of Snap Core First 1.12 feature updates in the release notes.
Text Page Set Localizations
Home Automation & Siri Search Integration
Siri Pages (iOS)
Page Printing – Print a page or set of pages from within Snap Core First. Customize the printing field to include or exclude areas like the message window and toolbar. Ideal for existing users who want a low-tech solution readily available.
Watch this video to learn more
Download this quick printing guide with instructions on how to print
FaceTime Capability - This feature allows Snap to be used while making calls on iOS 13 via the FaceTime App
Text Page Set Localization – The Text Page Set has been localized into the following languages:
Spanish (LA)
German (including Google Home and Alexa pages)
Swedish (including Google Home pages)
Dutch (including Google Home pages)
New Argentinian Symbol Set – A symbol set for Argentina is now included in Snap Core First. There are 69 symbols in this set.
Find our complete list of Snap Core First 1.11 feature updates in the release notes.
New Core First Scanning Page Set (U.S. English) - Designed for ease and efficiency, the Core First Scanning Page Set is organized to improve speed and ease of scanning. Four grid sizes (3x4, 6x4, 7x6, 9x8) help to eliminate scrolling in content as well as support group scanning. For those new to scanning, learn basic scanning skills with the Learn to Scan practice pages.
Manually update software within the Snap app on locked Windows devices – For devices connected to the internet infrequently or not at all, this features allows you to keep your software updated with the newest features and content releases.
Find our complete list of Snap Core First 1.10.2 feature updates in the release notes.
Languages: Icelandic, Czech, Portuguese (Portugal), Italian, Swiss German
Updated Word Lists - Increase efficiency through smaller word lists that are organized by frequency of use. Learn more about word lists here.
Aphasia Page Set - Support individuals with aphasia through this page set that is a combination of grid and visual scenes, includes frequently used tools (photos, photo albums, whiteboard).
Lightbulb - Easily access release notes, links to information, and tutorials with this icon in the top right corner of the title bar.
Whiteboard - Easily import photographs to write on them.
Accessible Share - Share message window is accessible and displays accessible options (AccessIT, copy to button, copy to clipboard).
Message Window / Copy Paste – Save messages by copying text from the message window (via accessible share window) to a button or copy to a place outside of Snap, paste text from clipboard into the message window.
Marquee Selection – Quickly edit multiple buttons.
Find our complete list of Snap Core First 1.10 feature updates in the release notes.
Snap + Core First is now Snap Core First.
Text Page Set – New text-based content for Snap Core First, designed for users who are fully literate.
Grid Spanning – Create buttons that are larger than one row and/or column.
Copy to Button – Copy text from the message window into a button, providing an accessible way for users to program their own buttons.
Toggle Full Screen action – An action to toggle the state of Snap Core First between full screen and windowed-mode.
I-Series Support – Control the Partner Window and Adaptive Buttons on I-13 and I-16 devices
Find our complete list of Snap Core First 1.9 feature updates in the release notes.
Languages: Spanish (Spain)
Setup Wizard: You can now see the two most common language options based on the language settings within your device.
Active Content Buttons: These allow you to display dynamic information on a button, where the label and symbol change to reflect the current information status.
Scanning Options:
Scanning Access Method types:
For a complete list of feature updates, please click here.
For release notes, please click here.
Languages: French Canadian - 1 new French (Canada) Acapela voice
Support for AccessIT 3: New actions for use with AccessIT 3, pages available from the Dashboard, pages also available from myTobiiDynavox.com
German PCS Page Set: 25 new German PCS symbols in the Snap extended symbol set
For a complete list of Content updates, please click here.
For a complete list of Software updates, please click here.
Languages: French and Latin American Spanish/English Bilingual
The number of rows displayed in the Toolbar separate from the Page grid size can be set.
To help improve Snap, customers may opt-in to send anonymous Snap usage data to Tobii Dynavox.
New Page Set Guides available in Systems > Help and Tutorials.
For a complete list of Content updates, please click here.
For a complete list of Software updates, please click here.
Languages: Snap + Core First is now available in Portuguese (Brazil)
Data Collection - Track progress and communicate development over time with the new data collection feature. When the in-app track button usage is enabled, Snap will record information about each button activation. Basic button usage data can be visualized as button usage counts within Snap and additional data visualizations are available in the Usage Reports section of your myTobiiDynavox.com account. Modeling mode records data events separately so that they can be differentiated from normal user events.
Backup/Restore to myTobiiDynavox.com - You can now backup/restore your pages to myTobiiDynavox.com directly within the software.
IR Support for I-Series+ - If you're using Snap on an I-Series device, it now supports IR functionality.
Shutdown/Restart actions (Windows only) – These actions can now all be done within the Snap software.
New Colors – Customize Snap with new color options. Colors include: Pale Pink, Lilac, Pale Blue, Pale Cyan, Silver Green, and Cream.
For a complete list of Snap + Core First updates and bug fixes, please click here.
Languages: Snap + Core First is now available in Spanish, Swedish and Dutch (Lite). The Dutch (Lite) version does not include software support for Inflector Buttons (word forms), automatic inflection of Grammar Buttons, automatic formation of contractions and compound words, and symbol search using morphological variants of words.
Snap is also available in English (US, UK), Bilingual English/Spanish, and German.
Delay after Page Change - for Gaze Interaction users that allows you to view newly opened pages without making eye gaze selections for up to 10 seconds
Pause Access Method (button type) - can be used to pause and un-pause the Access Methods Mouse Dwell and Gaze Interaction
Link Visualization (pageset style setting) - includes options to display all "link buttons" with Navigation Icons (the default), in a folder shape, or with no distinguishing style.
Clear after Speech (user preference) - automatically clears the Message Window when text is inserted after the Message Window has been spoken.
For a complete list of new Snap + Core First updates, please click here.
Snap + Core First Subscription Now Available - Need a short-term communication solution or do you want to just pay as you go? Snap + Core First is now available as a monthly subscription for just USD$9.99 (also available for USD$119.99/year). This option is perfect for those who want to pay only as long as they need Snap + Core First, for example users with a short-term medical need, like intubation, stroke or other brain injury, and other conditions. It is also ideal for users wishing to trial the software beyond the available 30-day free trial. In addition, the Snap subscription is a great way to access the leading software on the market without having to pay all at once. Subscription options are available for the iPad and Windows-based devices.
To purchase the subscription option, please click here.
Additionally, joining the Spanish/English bilingual pageset, Snap + Core First extends the well-received software to support the German language. This German release introduces the German core words, is localized for topics, supports German word prediction and morphology, symbol search, and more. The German Snap + Core First page set also integrates the German LiterAACy supports from Tobii Dynavox's Sono suite.
For a complete list of Snap + Core First 1.3 release notes, please click here.
Snap + Core First 1.1 is here with tons of exciting new features like importing, exporting, and sharing content as well as integration with myTobiiDynavox.com. Here's the scoop on a few more features we're thrilled to share with you:
For a full list of Snap + Core First 1.1 release features, please click here.
|iPad - (Free Version)
iPad - (Full Version)
|Initial Price
|Speaking Capabilities via In-App Purchase
|Speaking Capabilities via Subscription
£9.99 / Month
|Volume Purcahse Discounts Available
|Use as a Free Editor
|Trial Available in the App Store
|Use as Free Companion or Professional App
|Where to Buy
Free Version from the App Store
Full Version from the App Store
This option is perfect for those who want to pay only as long as they need Snap Core First, for example those with a short-term medical need, like intubation, stroke or other brain injury, and other acute conditions. It is also ideal for those wishing to trial Snap Core First beyond the available 30-day free trial. In addition, the Snap subscription is a great way to access the leading software on the market without having to pay all at once.
The functionality is exactly the same. The difference is that you're able to purchase the perpetual app with a purchase order. However, the perpetual app is for Windows only.
No, you would either have to continue paying the subscription price or complete the one-time purchase.
If you miss a payment, you will be reminded by email and asked to update your credit card details. In case of non-payment, your subscription will be cancelled and you will be notified that your subscription has expired.
No, your credit card information is not stored. Currently, the customer enters the card, the number is passed directly to the gateway (Mastercard/Visa/American Express), and we receive a token which is used to charge it going forward. This is all in compliance with https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/faq/.
Yes, your subscription will continue to renew every month/year until you formally cancel. When a subscription is cancelled, the end date of the subscription is set to the last date in the current period in which you are enrolled.
If you wish to end your subscription, you can use the cancellation link provided upon initial subscription activation, or contact Tobii Dynavox Support. A cancelled subscription does not immediately become deactivated. Instead, the canceled subscription remains active until the end of the subscription period for which you have paid.
You will continue to have access to your page sets and to myTobiiDynavox.com when you end the subscription. The Snap Core First software will stop speaking and digital assets that are included with the subscription will become disabled (e.g. 3rd party, but not PCS, symbol sets). But the restoration of your subscription will also restore those features.
Pathways for Core First companion app is ideal for parents, care givers, and communication partners looking for expert guidance and best practices for engaging Snap Core First users.
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There's No Place Like Home...Visits
Forge a strong partnership with parents by meeting them on their own turf.
Sometimes it's hard to get the help you need from parents in getting their children motivated and ready to learn—especially when the parents didn't go to school themselves or had a bad time of it.
There are many approaches to enlisting parents' support. The program outlined here was developed by parents and teachers working together in Sacramento, California, with strong support from the Sacramento City Teachers Association. It has been used in hundreds of schools in six states.
(Visit www.teachervisits.org for more.)
Before you start:
At least half of the faculty should want to do it.
Nobody should be forced to do it or punished for not doing it.
Everybody who does it should be paid.
Typically, there's a three-hour training program before the home visits start.
Preparing for a visit:
Don't visit only kids in trouble. That puts a stigma on getting a visit. Go see everybody, or if that's not possible, be sure to include at least some students who are doing well.
When you call to set up a visit, offer alternative times—few parents will say no if you're flexible. Most visits are in the afternoon or on weekends. If the parents are uncomfortable inviting you into their home, meet at a coffee shop, a library, or even a park.
Go with a partner—two teachers or a teacher and a support professional.
At the meeting:
- Introductions. Have everyone explain his or her relationship to the student. Usually, the student is there.
- Getting to know you. Find out whether the parents have other children in school. What's been their experience in schools up until now?
- Most important. The hopes and dreams conversation. Ask the parents about their dreams for their student, and share yours. You will probably discover you have much in common. "To stop and say why you do what you do—that can be very powerful for the teacher, not just the parent," says Carrie Rose, who directs the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project.
- Expectations. Explain what you need from the parent, and ask what the parent would like you to do. (Often, parents ask how they can contact you.)
If possible, don't come with papers and don't take notes. Parents will feel you are evaluating them. If you must deliver information, like the bell schedule or graduation requirements, don't pull out any paper for at least 20 minutes.
The typical meeting lasts 30 to 45 minutes.
Some home visit programs do deal with academics, but many teachers say the most productive visits just focus on building relationships.
Two teachers' best and worst home visits
Nancy Fong, elementary school teacher
Worst: "When we started, home visits were not part of the culture, and some parents would not let us come to the home. One mom had a lot of problems, including drugs. She had had her kids taken away before. She reluctantly agreed to meet at a McDonald's, but she would not open up.
"Her children had poor attendance, and we were trying to impress on her that she needed to get them to school on time. Her answers were curt. The whole meeting was over in 10 or 15 minutes.
"But by the next year, people were inviting us into their homes. They understood we were not trying to butt into their business, but asking them to help us."
Best: "Another one of my first visits was to a very angry African-American mom who felt we were picking on her son. My partner in the home visits, Cory Jones, is African-American, and he took the lead. I could see her defensiveness melt away.
"The boy was very distractible and used to drum on his desk with a pencil, disrupting our teaching. It turned out he had a drum set at home that was broken. Cory got someone to fix it. That mom went on to become one of our parent leaders and started a Boy Scout troop at school. The boy is 15 now, but he and his mom both come back to see us."
Teresa Cummings, high school math teacher
Worst: "An uncle opened the door. Mom was in bed and refused to get up, even though we had arranged the visit by phone. We didn't make it into the home. That one was not so hot."
Best: "We met with the mom and grandma of a kid who had been arrested for armed robbery and had failed the
California high school exit exam. We gave them information about tutoring and other resources available on our campus. The grandma was so thankful somebody cared about her grandson!
"Before, teachers would call home to say, 'Your grandson is acting up' or 'He's been suspended.' This was the first time teachers had come and believed in her grandson. We said, 'We're here to help you graduate!'
"She was almost in tears, she was so happy. And he did graduate. He was a good kid. He was just running with the wrong crowd, trying to be cool."
On a scale from 1 to 10, with their worst visit as 1 and their best a 10, Fong and Cummings say their average visit is about an 8.
"It's not a magic bullet," says Cummings. "But it is one way teachers can show they actually care about the student.
"When you step out of your comfort zone and show you care, kids are motivated to learn and parents are motivated to help."
A Parent's Story.
One day in the spring of 1996, Yesenia Gonzalez, newly arrived in Sacramento, walked into the front office at the elementary school where her five children were students. She wanted to get involved.
Half an hour later, she was still sitting there. No one had said a word to her.
Finally she got someone's attention and explained why she had come. The staff person took her number and said someone would call. No one did.
Several weeks later, Gonzalez came back and sat even longer. At last she got up to leave and started cursing in Spanish.
From that inauspicious beginning grew a home-visit program that is a model of teacher-parent appreciation and collaboration.
At that moment, the vice principal, who spoke Spanish, came out of her office and asked Gonzalez what she was upset about. They talked, and the vice principal began to introduce Gonzalez to the school. Together with two other like-minded parents, Gonzalez began working for more parent and community involvement at the school. But they were met a lot of resistance. Soon the media dubbed them "the three angry moms."
So the parents, several teachers, and representatives of ACT went to the Sacramento City Teachers Association and together they worked out a proposal for a home visit program. The union wanted to be sure educators would be paid for their extra work, and that the whole program would be voluntary—the parents supported both.
Then parents and teachers approached the school superintendent. As Gonzalez recalls, the superintendent told them the union would never agree. He was wrong, they informed him. The union was already on board. He was still reluctant. But the group persuaded the superintendent to try some home visits himself. According to Gonzalez, that's what won the day: "He said, 'I get it. I see the power of this.'" And with $100,000 in district funds, the home visit program was born in Sacramento.
How to Get Parents to Help with Classroom Management
Teacher of the Year Tony Mullen tells NEA President Dennis Van Roekel how you can get parents to help with classroom management.

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Meet and Greet
This story appears in the March 2000 issue of HomeOfficeMag.com. Subscribe »
When Deb Haggerty ditched corporate America in 1985 to launch her own business, she didn't know she'd long for the "team" she left behind. All it took was one week for the former career corporate citizen to realize she needed people around.
"I missed the camaraderie, the give and take, the jokes and compliments that go on in an office full of people," she says. "I realized I needed to get into some networking groups to maintain my sanity and my self-esteem."
Today, Haggerty, president of Positive Connections, a communications skills and recruiting enhancement company, no longer longs for the buzz of the corporate hive. She's too busy with her own network of colleagues in professional and peer groups, as well as frequent interaction with clients.
Weekly, she meets with the local Orlando Chamber of Commerce. Virtually, she's involved with three Internet e-mail groups: SuperGals, a clutch of 10 businesswomen formed in July 1999 to chat online; PowerPals, a group of 15 women who've gathered online since October 1999 to discuss business issues; and CLASS Chats, a Tuesday online chat group that supports authors and speakers in the Christian market.
"Phone and e-mail [contact] take the place of the face-to-face interaction I used to crave," she says. "When I need face-to-face, I go to a networking event."
Working from home in the e-community has drawn many former corporate professionals like Haggerty out of the city and into the suburbs. The transition from close contact with fellow workers to the solitude, even isolation, of the home office can be dispiriting to new and experienced at-home workers alike.
Often, setting up networking groups or online e-mail or chat groups accomplishes multiple tasks. Not only does the effort often result in decreased feelings of isolation-it helps entrepreneurs rebuild bridges lost when they left the corporate environment, as well as bolster their existing skill sets and knowledge bases with those of their peers, says Jim Rohrbach, a speaker, trainer, skills coach and author.
"To be successful," says Rohrbach, "you need to align yourself with organizations where there's a natural synergy."
Come Together
If it's synergy you're looking for, you have a lot of groups to choose from. Some homebased business owners have turned to "professional" networking organizations as lead-generating and problem-solving teams. Business Network International in San Dimas, California, is a business referral and networking organization. Its members pay an annual membership fee, then "market" each other by carrying other members' business cards and making referrals when the appropriate requests for service comes up.
New York City-based Let's Talk Business Network is similar to BNI in that it offers support, camaraderie, networking and coaching. While the $1,995 annual membership fee might be a bit steep for start-up enterprises, in April, LTBN will launch a new community for homebased entrepreneurs, starting at $240 per year.
As "free agency" becomes more common in the marketplace, former corporate citizens are finding comfort and camaraderie in small peer groups, says Dan Pink, a writer on free-agency employment in the new economy.
Whether they're monthly groups or online clutches that share ideas via e-mail or chat rooms, these teams brainstorm together and meet the need for kinship. "These 'free agent nation' clubs function as part board of directors, part group therapy," Pink says.
Miki Saxon confesses to using networking as group therapy, as much for herself as for the small-business professionals around her. As CEO and founder of RampUp, an employee-retention and staffing consulting firm for young companies, Saxon relies on the constant flow of e-mail from her four virtual employees, her virtual chairman and a list of clients to keep her in touch with the world outside her home office.
Saxon also belongs to the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), a group of about 450 women with whom Saxon can share leads, concerns and questions online, via phone or in person at group meetings.
Whether it's through FWE or her other e-mail channels, Saxon says people write or call with questions they wouldn't share in the company of family or other professionals. "Without that network, all of us would go crazy," she says, admitting that networking often moves into her personal life. "To keep our sanity, we all need somebody to commiserate with."
More Minds Are Better Than One
Mastermind groups, a concept coined by Napoleon Hill's classic business strategy book, Think & Grow Rich, help small-business owners share ideas in a creative and confidential environment. Where networking groups can vary in member attendance and serve more as informal meetings for business leads, Mastermind groups are a clique of a half-dozen committed members. Each brings his or her own goals and professional insights to a regular meeting.
In running Global Connections Speakers Bureau, Lisa Bell regularly battles isolation and motivational issues. To stave off the loneliness, Bell attends meetings of the local chamber of commerce, the National Association of Women Business Owners and Meeting Professionals International.
In 1997, she went a step further, and created her own Mastermind group to feed her need for creative and critical input on such projects as marketing materials, business positioning and strategic planning. One winter morning, Bell sat with four business compatriots near a pond, opened a bottle of champagne and let the ideas, news, successes and concerns flow.
Their Mastermind meetings are now monthly, four-hour events. Uninterrupted, they share ideas, offer suggestions, inspire and motivate each other, and "recharge [their] batteries," Bell says. "It's a creative process. When you try to figure things out, instead of one mind, you have four."
Create your own Mastermind group as a sounding board for your ideas, using these steps:
- Draft a team. Contact about six peers in noncompeting fields. Make sure they're thoughtful, trustworthy, creative and inspiring. Keep the group small; larger groups tend to lose control, focus and intimacy.
- Set a regular schedule. Pencil in a regular day and time to hold the meeting-shoot for monthly at least. If the meetings become too infrequent, their importance and power may be lost. Vary the location-and open with a game-to spur creative thought.
- Prepare a game plan. Since each member gets some time to present and discuss his or her topics, bring a list of issues you need to cover (a new marketing or business plan, your Web site or collateral design, a new market niche you want to target, etc.).
- Act. Once you leave, don't let the meeting's power subside. Sit down with your notes and put your partners' thoughts and ideas into action. Next time you meet, report on your success.
Find Your Place
Where can you go to network, expand your knowledge, make allies and increase your professionalism? Try these resources:
- Read the business section. Scan your local paper to locate meetings of networking groups, industry associations or other venues to share and learn new ideas.
- Return to your roots. Ferret out your industry's associations or publications, peer groups and other professional organizations where people of similar backgrounds or interests meet and network.
- Get academic. Call the local university extension service, Small Business Development Center, SBA or Service Corps of Retired Executives office to inquire about seminars.
- Network online. Search the Internet using keywords associated with your industry or trade. Peruse Web sites and participate in discussion groups related to your area of interest.
Group Mentality
Want to rebuild your "corporate" camaraderie? At-home workers can gather a clutch of confidants and peers with whom they can share ideas, rejoice in new assignments or lament about business lost. And, if you can't join one, you should start one.
Here are some tips to starting a networking group of your own:
- Start with a self-assessment. Why do you want to create a peer network? What are you looking for from the group? What should your members get out of it, and what can they give back?
- Develop your "30-second spot." Learn how to express what you do concisely, so others will be intrigued enough to join your network.
- Act as if you're looking for a new job. Spin the Rolodex, figure out those people you'd like to know better and believe you could learn from. Choose up to five you think would be interested. Talk to them about it; ask them whether they know up to three more who might be interested. Max out at 25 people. Meet regularly online or offline. Get enough people involved that, if you're meeting regularly, enough people will show up to make it worthwhile.


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MIA scores a coup with Titian exhibit
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts will host an exhibit of Venetian Renaissance paintings and drawings which have never been to the U.S. before.
The exhibit, drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, centers around work by the great Italian master Titian.
MIA painting curator Patrick Noon says the centerpieces of the show are two large Titian depictions of the goddess Diana, which were commissioned by King Phillip of Spain in the late 16th century.
"They are simply astonishingly beautiful and well-preserved pictures," Noon said.
Noon says it is a rare opportunity to see great examples of the work of a Renaissance master.
"They haven't left the UK in decades, and they have never actually been seen in North America," said Noon. "For us it's particularly important becauseit's an area in our collection which is not very strong, so we are able to bring a fantastic group of Veneitain Renaissance paintings by the greatest masters of that particular school."
Noon says the exhibit of 12 paintings and 13 drawings will be a rare opportunity to see Titian's work, and how he influenced other major artists, including Tintoretto, Veronese, Bassano and Lotto -- whose work will also be part of the exhibit.
The exhibit, "Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland," will be on display in February 2011.


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ON AND OFF October 6 – December 2, 2006 Opening Reception: October 5, 6-8pm
The Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery is pleased to present ON and Off a new show featuring an international group of contemporary artists.
Ten years since it emerged as a medium for contemporary art, the Internet and the work it inspires, is no longer confined by the browser window. The Web influences culture at large: it adapts to new technology, cultivates demographics, and evolves our cultural needs and norms. The works of Vuk Cosic, Lisa Jevbratt, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Thomson and Craighead, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES are testament to its expanding role in contemporary life.
Long working at the forefront of the medium, these artists explore the particularities of Web technology and its aesthetics and utility in projects that clearly transcend the specificity of "Internet Art." Internationally renowned and widely exhibited both on line and off these artists offer us compelling insights into our simple, everyday desire to be connected.
The Gallery is located at 601 W 26th Street, Suite 1240, New York, NY. The Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6.
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Johnny Rotten may not like it but he is starting to become Johnny Icon.
The 57-year-old former frontman of the anarchic 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols is to receive an award for his contribution to music from the music rights organisation BMI, although he angrily rejected previous honours.
Singer-songwriter John Lydon, who went by the name Johnny Rotten as he belted out songs like "Pretty Vacant" and "Anarchy in the UK", will be presented with BMI's Icon Award at a gala in London on October 15.
Lydon, with his trademark orange hair, and the Pistols are credited with launching punk rock in Britain and inspiring scores of other musicians with their expletive-ridden, anti-establishment rage.
"John Lydon is a true icon whose influence on music, fashion and art has been felt around the world," Del Bryant, BMI President and CEO, said in a statement.
Lydon was not immediately available to comment on the award but news of the honour was posted on his website and tweeted by his current band, Public Image Ltd, suggesting he had accepted.
This would contrast with 1996, when Lydon called the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a "piss stain" when it was announced the Sex Pistols would be inducted into the Ohio museum, which adds several new acts to its ranks its year.
But Lydon does appear to have mellowed over the years.
In 2004 he appeared in the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!" in which participants face jungle conditions, and in 2008 in a much-maligned advert for British butter, later insisting he was proud to boost the image of a UK brand.
However he came under fire in Australia earlier this year, accused of sexism after telling a female presenter to "shut up when a man is talking". He later apologised, saying his only enemies are governments and institutions, not women.
The BMI said its Icon award recognised musicians who have had "a unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers". Previous recipients include Van Morrison, Bryan Ferry and Queen.
The Sex Pistols formed in 1975 and sparked controversies galore, with their appearances often resulting in chaos. The BBC refused to air the 1977 song "God Save The Queen", released at the time of Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee.
The band's sole studio album, "Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols", from 1977, led to an obscenity trial.
Lydon left the Sex Pistols in 1978, announcing their demise, to form his own band, Public Image Ltd. It disbanded in the 1990s but reformed in 2009 and released its first album in 20 years last year, prompting a U.S. tour. Lydon performed last month at Britain's biggest music festival, Glastonbury.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 4/29/2014, pg. A4)
In the story "Four String Theory," on Jake Shimabukuro and the popularity of the ukulele, the wrong date
was given for the Sebastopol Ukulele Festival. It takes place May 10.
Jake Shimabukuro is a world ambassador for the ukulele, filling concert halls across America — and in Japan, Singapore, Russia and Brazil. His pipsqueak instrument's popularity in those far-flung places, he said, "really has been blowing my mind."
Next stop: Stanford University's Bing Concert Hall, where Honolulu-based Shimabukuro's sold-out Thursday show may feature a ukulele remake of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." His YouTube video of the George Harrison tune has nearly 13 million hits; that won't be lost on his audience, which is sure to draw from the dozens of ukulele clubs, workshops and jam sessions in the Bay Area, a hot spot for the instrument's laid-back sound.
"Everybody's asking, 'Why? Why the resurgence?' " said Mike DaSilva, an ex-software engineer who custom builds ukuleles in his Berkeley shop, selling them worldwide for an average price of $3,000. His answer: The instrument is accessible; there's the sense that anybody can play it. Or maybe there's a backlash to "American Idol."
"Who knows? Everybody was so passive, just watching," said DaSilva. "Now they're doing something — playing the ukulele."
A member of the guitar family — but with only four strings instead of six, and a trimmed-down two-octave range — the ukulele has come a long way since the days of Tiny Tim's 1968 "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."
It's estimated that about 600,000 ukuleles are sold each year in the United States. The tiny instrument cuts a mighty profile from Santa Cruz — whose ukulele club has been the subject of documentaries and, with an email list of 2,800, is said to be the world's largest — to Sebastopol, where a ukulele festival is scheduled for May 10. For baby boomers, the uke carries a whiff of nostalgia. For the surf crowd, it's as hip as hula.
Do a Google search on "ukulele" and you'll find clubs and classes in Orinda, San Francisco, San Jose. Ukulele Club Silicon Valley meets monthly at a Mountain View coffee shop for a crowded singalong jam session. Members of a Vipassana meditation center in Redwood City have formed Sona's Dharma Strummers club, with the tongue-in-cheek motto: "Strum your way to samadhi." Also in Redwood City, there's a group called BUG (Banjo Ukulele Group), whose members often play the banjolele, a uke spinoff.
With 37-year-old Shimabukuro, the ukulele has found its Eric Clapton. Introduced to the instrument at age 4 by his mother, an accomplished player, he is a virtuoso hero for the instrument, collaborating with Béla Fleck, Cyndi Lauper and Yo-Yo Ma. Now Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder are playing the ukulele in concerts and "kind of showing off its cool side," said Shimabukuro. "Young people see them playing it and go, 'Oh, man, I want to play the ukulele.' "
It's much easier to play than, say, the violin or guitar. Learn a handful of simple chords, and you're on your way, strumming those nylon strings through "Bye Bye Love" and "Leaving on a Jet Plane."
"If you've got a decent sense of rhythm, if you can tap your hand on the steering wheel of your car, you can probably strum the ukulele to the same song," said Richard Johnston, co-owner of Palo Alto's Gryphon Stringed Instruments, which expects to sell about 500 ukuleles this year.
On the other hand, many seasoned guitarists enjoy the ukulele because it forces them to "skip the filigree — all the extra notes and inside harmonies you're drawn to on the guitar. It teaches you to focus on the melody, the song," said Michael Simmons. The Peninsula-based editor's Ukulele Occasional magazine covered the uke scene a decade ago; now his Fretboard Journal addresses ukulele topics. He compares the instrument to the Chihuahua — small, overlooked, but loaded with personality.
In the Hawaiian language, "ukulele" means "jumping flea," and Hawaii is where the instrument is most "culturally embedded," said Stephen Sano, chair of Stanford University's music department. Sano teaches a course on Hawaiian slack key guitar, with a side trip through the ukulele. He has co-authored (with Daniel Ho, a top uke performer) a new ukulele instruction manual for elementary school students. He commissioned Santa Cruz luthier Rick Turner to build a ukulele using the same stock of Alaskan cedar that went into Bing Concert Hall's snow-white stage floor. Shimabukuro expects to play the "Bing ukulele" on a song or two at his Stanford show.
In his Palo Alto living room, Sano strums the instrument, a beauty. Its 11-inch body is crafted from the Alaskan cedar. Its back and sides are made from koa, the native Hawaiian wood. Its neck is mahogany, its fingerboard ebony. Its sound is light and bright.
"There's a word in the Hawaiian language, nahenahe, which means relaxed and peaceful, laid back, mellow," Sano said, "and there's that kind of aesthetic" that flows through Hawaiian music.
Brought to Hawaii in the late 19th century by Portuguese immigrants, the ukulele stormed the mainland in 1915 at San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition. A guitar and ukulele ensemble at the Hawaiian Pavilion became a national sensation.
Ubiquitous in the Jazz Age, the uke, and Hawaiian music, generally, reached a zenith of popularity in the mid-1920s. Its star faded during the Great Depression, then rose again after World War II, when GIs brought the baby guitars home from the Pacific, and Arthur Godfrey played his ukulele on national television. It's had its ups (Martin Mull playing his zany "Ukulele Blues") and downs (Tiny Tim, you say?), but never has gone away.
"It's such silly fun," said Sandor Nagyszalanczy, a founding member and director of the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz. "There's so little pretension. If you know three chords, you can strum along, and everyone is a hero."
Contact Richard Scheinin at 408-920-5069, read his stories and reviews at www.mercurynews.com/richard-scheinin and follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/richardscheinin.
Jake Shimabukuro
When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University
Tickets: $10-$60, sold out; add your name to a list for returned tickets at http://live.stanford.edu
Also: June 14, Mountain Winery, Saragota, $32.50-$49.50, www.mountainwinery.com
some Area ukulele clubs and classes
Banjo Ukulele Group in Redwood City: firstname.lastname@example.com
Berkeley Ukulele Club: www.ukemaker.com (click on "More")
Island Hawaiian Studios in Alameda: http://halaumakana.wordpress.com/monthly-kanikapila
San Francisco Ukulele Rebellion: www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Ukulele-Meetup
San Jose Ukulele Club: http://sanjoseukeclub.org
Sona's Dharma Strummers in Redwood City: email@example.com
Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz: www.ukuleleclub.com
Ukulele Club Silicon Valley: https://sites.google.com/site/ukuleleclubsiliconvalley
Ukulele Jams in San Jose: http://ukulelejams.com/registration.php


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Ancestry.com announced a change to their search capabilities yesterday. I played with it for a few hours and was impressed! Before the change you had to use three characters and then either a * or a ?.
For example to search my maiden name McGinnis, you had to put MCG* to get variations of the ending of the name (innis, innes, ennis, ennes, uinness etc) But that didn't pick up MacG starts or McI starts or such variations as Magennis. So it was time-consuming and sometimes impossible, to think of all possible mis-indexed or mis-spelled variations.
Now you can put a wildcard first, such as *innis or ?cGinnis to catch all of those spellings and variations.
Try it. You'll like it! But you need to know the rules as posted by Ancestry.com:
Either the first or last character must be a non-wildcard character. For example, Han* and *son are okay, but not *anso*
Names must contain at least three non-wildcard characters. For example, Ha*n is okay, but not Ha*
You can use two wildcards in your name searches: the * (asterisk or star) and the ? (question mark).
* matches zero or more characters (example M*n*s picks up McGinnis, MacGinnis, McInnes, Magenis, and so on)
? matches one character only (example McGinn?s picks up McGinnes or McGinnis)
A really useful application of this new wildcard search capablity is the ability to replace the first letter of a surname! This allows for mistranscriptions or misindexing of such letters as "L" for "S" or "W" for "M" or "J" for "T". So if your surname of interest is Loomis, look for *oomis and that will pick up Soomis or other misrecorded names
Yesterday I was looking for a man named Lewis. But that name can be spelled Louis, and of course, mis-spelled in many ways. So I searched for l*is (remember, you must have 3 non wild-card letters) and bingo, there he was, as Louis.
I love this new search and am so glad Ancestry.com decided to set this up for researchers


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Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
Based on 18 months of Envisat observations, this high-resolution global atmospheric map of nitrogen dioxide pollution makes clear just how human activities impact air quality.
ESA's ten-instrument Envisat, the world's largest satellite for environmental monitoring, was launched in February 2002. Its onboard Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument records the spectrum of sunlight shining through the atmosphere. These results are then finely sifted to find spectral absorption 'fingerprints' of trace gases in the air.
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a mainly man-made gas, excess exposure to which causes lung damage and respiratory problems. It also plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry, because it leads to the production of ozone in the troposphere – which is the lowest part of the atmosphere, extending up to between eight and 16 kilometres high.
Nitrogen oxides are produced by emissions from power plants, heavy industry and road transport, along with biomass burning. Lightning in the air also creates nitrogen oxides naturally, as does microbial activity in the soil.
Localised in-situ measurements of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide are carried out in many western industrial countries, but ground-based data sources are generally thin on the ground.
Space-based sensors are the only way to carry out effective global monitoring: the first satellite sensitivity to tropospheric nitrogen dioxide was demonstrated with the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) on ESA's ERS-2. However GOME was only a sub-scale precursor of the German, Dutch and Belgian financed SCIAMACHY flying on Envisat.
While both instruments function in the same way, GOME has a limited spatial resolution of only 320 x 40 km, compared to a typical 60 x 30 km with SCIAMACHY, which also observes the atmosphere in two different views –downwards or 'nadir' looking as well as making 'limb' observations in the direction of flight – and has a significantly larger spectral range than its predecessor.
Teams from the Universities of Bremen and Heidelberg in Germany, the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) have successfully processed SCIAMACHY data to generate the sharpest maps yet made of the vertical columns of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide.
"The higher spatial resolution delivered by SCIAMACHY means we see a lot of detail in these global images, even resolving individual city sources" said Steffen Beirle of the University of Heidelberg's Institute for Environmental Physics, responsible for the map shown above.
"High vertical column distributions of nitrogen dioxide are associated with major cities across North America, Europe and north-east China, along with other sites such as Mexico City in Central America and South African coal-fired power plants located close together in the eastern Highveld plateau of that country.
"Also across South East Asia and much of Africa can be seen nitrogen dioxide produced by biomass burning. Ship tracks are visible in some locations: look at the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean between the southern tip of India and Indonesia. The smoke stacks of ships crossing these routes send a large amount of NO2 into the troposphere.
This map is average out across all available data, spanning 18 months. This has the effects of reducing seasonal variations in biomass burning and also those due to human activity changes due to the time of year."
Like GOME, SCIAMACHY works by observing atmosphere-scattered ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared radiation. The hard work comes on the ground, where researchers attempt to retrieve very weak trace gas absorption patterns within the overall spectrum of backscattered light, a feat comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.
The method they use is called Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS), which is basically a complex filtering process also used with ground-based air-sampling instruments. DOAS removes the predominant spectral 'noise' from air particles' Rayleigh scattering of light (the same phenomenon that causes the sky appear blue) along with the absorption patterns from the oxygen, nitrogen and water molecules that make up most of the atmosphere.
Left behind after these subtractions is the desired 'signal' of narrower trace gas spectral absorption patterns, to be identified against sample cross sections. Applied to SCIAMACHY results, this technique is sufficiently sensitive to retrieve columns lower than a few parts of nitrogen dioxide per billion parts of air. To give an idea of scale, above highly polluted conurbations such as London, NO2 mixing ratios can reach values as high as a hundred parts per billion.
Nitrogen dioxide maps like that shown here have been produced using nadir-sounding data: while NO2 vary widely across the troposphere they are evenly spread across the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere. So nitrogen dioxide levels measured above the remotest parts of the Pacific were used to determine a general column for stratospheric nitrogen dioxide, which could be subtracted from the global data to determine tropospheric vertical column values.
"Results from this and other similar sensors could be used for chemical weather and air quality prediction in future," Beirle added. "For now we are focused on using the SCIAMACHY results to quantify the contributions of the different sources of nitrogen oxides – such as fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning, lightning – especially as the value of the latter is still highly uncertain."
About SCIAMACHY
SCIAMACHY is a spectrometer that maps the air over a very wide wavelength range, which allows detection of trace gases, ozone and related gases, clouds and dust particles throughout the atmosphere. It works by measuring sunlight, transmitted, reflected and scattered by the earth's atmosphere or surface in the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared wavelength region. With a 960-km swath it covers the entire world every six days.
This versatile instrument represents a national contribution to ESA's Envisat mission. It was funded by the German government through the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Dutch government through the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes (NIVR) and also the Belgian government through BIRA-IASB.
John Burrows of the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics first devised the idea for SCIAMACHY, and he now serves as its Principal Investigator. SCIAMACHY is part of a family of atmospheric spectrometers that also includes GOME on ERS-2 and the forthcoming GOME-2 instrument launching next year with the first MetOp mission.


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At this week's Bitcoin 2014 Conference in Amsterdam, digital payment company Circle launched its first Bitcoin-centric payment service to the public. Announced with a mission to "reduce friction" in the use of the rising currency, Circle's offering, currently in invite-only mode, has been designed to enable instant Bitcoin transfers for novices, without charging customers a penny.
The free service's main goal is to separate its customers from the sometimes-confusing buying and selling aspects of the Bitcoin marketplace. Instead, it asks users to connect their debit and credit accounts to Circle, at which point Circle will handle instant conversions of local currency to and from Bitcoin. From there, users can spend and transfer their Bitcoins through the site, PayPal-style. Also, if you shop at an online merchant that supports Bitcoin, Circle will pick up those sites' Bitcoin links to cleanly handle the payments.
As of right now, Circle takes no percentage of such exchanges, nor does it charge users a percentage to make purchases or transfer funds to other users. The announcement also comes with a giant bullet-point list of security and insurance moves on Circle's part, including offline currency vaults, no-cost theft insurance, American financial rules compliance, and "armed guards."
Those are probably necessary moves in light of recent Bitcoin collapse and theft stories, especially if Circle aims to secure the "mainstream" Bitcoin crowd (which similar service Coinbase is already aiming for). Founded by former Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, Circle has already raised over $26 million in private capital, an amount that it will have to burn through to support costs like insurance, customer service, and (apparently) a cabal of armed guards. Oh, and there's also the cost of doling out $10 to every new Circle user (which Coinbase almost matches with a $10 credit for new users who sign up with a .edu address).
Sadly, Ars was not invited to host any panels at the Bitcoin 2014 Conference, even after we revolutionized cryptocurrencies by way of funny, digital hats.


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The SNU emblem has a laurel entwined with a crossed pen and torch standing behind an open book and a shield. On the opened pages of the book, the motto reads 'Veritas Lux Mea', Latin for 'Truth is my light.'
The pen and torch illustrate the university's determination to enlighten the nation through education and research. The shield in front of them stands for the university's will to retain its commitment, while the laurel symbolizes the honor of it.
This emblem was first made around 1947~ 1948 after the school was founded. At first, each college had their own unique symbol but they were unified in 1955. The indigo blue was designated as the exclusive color for Seoul National University in 2006.
The huge triangular main gate of the school is the most widely known monument to represent Seoul National University since it moved to its current location in Gwanak in 1975. Designed with the first consonants of the Korean name of Seoul National University, 'ㄱ', 'ㅅ', 'ㄷ' from 국립 서울 대학교, it resembles the shape of a key. The main gate symbolizes a key to truth, the university's motto.
The gate was refurbished in 2006 to celebrate the university's 60th anniversary. The color was changed from yellow to a light silver gray, and lights were placed around the gate to illuminate this famous structure in the nighttime. These changes were made to signify that Seoul National University is an educational facility welcoming all and to underscore the university's role as the leading hall of learning moving forward day and night. Serving as the school's landmark, the main gate shines throughout the night as the key to pursuing virtue.
The zelkova tree as Seoul National University's school tree symbolizes the virtues of open-mindedness and generosity. In any town in Korea, there existed a resting place under a zelkova tree. The tree, embodying people's wishes for the town's well-being, unity and peaceful existence, often provided shade for people to rest under with its fully grown branches and leaves. Zelkova trees are found growing naturally in all corners of Korea, and are known for their longevity, sometimes living as long as a thousand years. They are known to be one of the best trees of all, because of their supreme quality and beautiful wooden texture.
Because of this, they are often preferred as the material to be used for woodcraft. Zelkova trees have strong immunity against diseases and have clean leaves and stems that were considered to represent scholarly qualities in the past. The longevous and generous characteristics of zelkova trees resemble Seoul National University's fundamental beliefs: the determination to embrace the entire world's wisdom as an academic leader and to carry on this determination forever. The school respects the sublime values of a scholar akin to the solid and bold branches of the tree and is prepared to embrace ideas of the world like the wide canopy of the zelkova tree's branches.
With a pure white body, black flight feathers, a red crown, and a thin, long neck and legs, cranes have been a friendly bird for the Korean people. Known for nobility and dignity in their appearance, cranes have always made people stand in awe of their beautiful figure as they stand on only one leg while sleeping. Scholars in the Joseon Dynasty tried to embody the virtues that the cranes represent and they embroidered the bird's figure onto the robes for civil servants. Because cranes symbolize longevity, clothes with the bird embroidered on them were given to one's parents on their 60th birthday. Moreover, cranes are well known for their habitude of enjoying peace in transcendental tranquility even in the face of vulgarity.
These gracious figures and the way they spread their wings and fly make cranes an excellent embodiment of what the future of academic studies should represent. Seoul National University longs to emulate cranes' sophistication and noble character in their pursuit of academic excellence, rising above the vulgar interests of the world.
The initials of Seoul National University, SNU, are designed into various designs and are used to represent the University's Identity.
I love SNU The heart that holds the letters S, N, U signifies a harmonizing SNU.
Diversity The three letters of S, N, and U in different sizes, located within a square box signifies SNU people leading the world in various ways, both big and small.
Dynamic SNU As the beating of drums gets louder after each beat, the letters grow bolder, signifying the dynamic force behind SNU.
In 2006, marking its 60th anniversary, Seoul National University unveiled a special emblem and slogan to specify its goals for the future. The emblem, designed with the slogan for the anniversary ('Leading the Way: 겨레와 함께 미래로') and the school bird (the crane), along with a torch in the shape of the number 60, illustrates the university's vision to lead in the 21st century. Also, it stands for the school's passion to seek the truth and the determination to transcend national boundaries and become a global leader. Finished in iridescent shades, the multi-colored emblem symbolizes the school embracing diversity through globalization and open-mindedness as a global leader. In addition, '60th Anniversary Seoul National University' is written in bold print to emphasize the dependable character of the university.
Marking the 70th anniversary, Seoul National University made a special emblem and new slogan. The Visual Communication Design Lab at SNU Department of Crafts and Design created the emblem with a combination of the official symbol and the number 70. The shape of the '70' resembles an aircraft taking off to sky, which symbolizes SNU's soaring into the greatness. The 70th Anniversary Planning Committee made a new slogan for the next decade as "Embrace the world. Pioneer the future."


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A man who murdered his sister and nephew before killing himself last month in La Plata County faced a cascade of troubles: His mother had just died, he was embroiled in an inheritance battle, he was being evicted from his home and he was being investigated for possession of child pornography.
Investigators said they have concluded their investigation into the double murder-suicide, calling it the first such case they can recall in this area.
According to interviews and incident reports, this is what happened:
About 12:30 p.m. June 8, William Klatt Decker, 69, left a message with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which was investigating him for possession of child pornography.
In the message, Decker said the agency needed to have some strangers he was referring to police officers come to the ranch where he lived in southwest La Plata County just north of New Mexico on La Plata Highway (Colorado Highway 140).
He didnt say anything more.
Homeland Security relayed the message to the La Plata County Sheriffs Office, which sent three law-enforcement officers to investigate.
They arrived about 2:30 p.m. to find Decker hanging from a rope inside a barn with a pistol nearby on the ground. According to investigators, Decker climbed a ladder, tied a nylon rope to a rafter, tied the other end around his neck and shot himself in the head with a .45-caliber pistol.
A handwritten note found nearby mentioned his sister, Billie Decker, 67, and his nephew, Robert Duke Decker, 40.
Youll find Duke down by the river under the third wire basket, the letter said, referring to one of three wire baskets used to keep deer away from trees. Youll need to go get Billie Decker from her Riverview address. She will be in her upstairs bedroom.
Investigators walked a short distance to the river where they found a pile of dirt with a boot heel sticking out. Buried in the shallow grave was Duke Decker.
Anthropologists from Fort Lewis College helped excavate the burial site not because it contained old bones, rather, to avoid disturbing potential evidence.
Investigators said Duke died about 6 p.m. June 7, a day before Klatt Decker shot himself.
They believe Duke, who also lived at the ranch, was arriving home from work and was walking to the house from his truck when he was struck by two bullets, one that pierced his right shoulder and another that landed in his upper back.
Based on evidence at the scene, investigators said he was incapacitated by the gunshots, and Klatt walked up to him and hit him over the head with an 18-inch rusty pipe wrench.
A medical examiner ruled the cause of death to be blunt-force trauma to the head.
Klatt Decker put his nephews body onto the bed of a pickup, drove it 50 feet to the river, wrapped it in a tarp and buried it. The pipe wrench was found under Dukes head in the shallow grave.
The Sheriffs Office asked the Durango Police Department to check on Billie Decker. Officers went to her house at 242 Riverview Drive where they found her in the upstairs bedroom in a kneeling position on the floor with a rope tied around her neck. The 20-foot rope was strung over her bedroom door and tied off to a door knob across the hall.
Investigators believe Klatt Decker entered her house and killed her without a struggle between 4 and 5 p.m. two hours before he killed Duke Decker.
Billie Decker had a fatal head wound caused by an 18-inch pipe wrench, investigators said. The medical examiner said she died from hanging and blunt-force trauma to the head.
Klatt Decker had a tough couple of months leading up to the murders, and it appears he blamed his sister and nephew for some of those problems:
On April 4, federal authorities executed a search warrant at his house and seized computers and other items suspected of being used to download or receive child pornography. Even though Klatt is dead, federal officials continue to investigate the origins of the child porn.
Two days later, on April 6, Klatt Deckers mother, Margaret Maggie Decker, died. She left her 750-acre ranch to her grandson, Duke Decker, rather than to her son, Klatt, which set off an inheritance battle.
A week to 10 days before the killings, Duke Decker served his uncle with eviction papers giving him 10 days to vacate a trailer on the property. Klatt Decker packed all of his belongings, and it appeared as though he had a place to go. But the deal apparently fell through.
Investigators said they are unsure why Klatt Decker took the time to bury his nephew.
It is possible he planned to cover up his tracks. Or the burial was the culmination of his murderous rampage.
The medical examiner noted that Duke Decker had several broken ribs, suggesting Klatt Decker kicked him in the side, said sheriffs Investigator Ed Phippen.
It appeared that he was extremely upset and it got directed at the family, he said.


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Story highlights
- Tard Carter is Baltimore outreach worker who helps settle street disputes
- Daniel Webster says programs like "Safe Streets" are effective in cutting gun violence
- Such initiatives, including Chicago's "CeaseFire," complement policing, he says
- Webster: Recent federal cuts will hurt programs' ability to curb street violence
When most Americans think about heroic efforts that save lives and keep communities safe from gun violence, I suspect they picture someone with a badge, gun or bullet-proof vest who, with similarly equipped colleagues, busts down doors in pursuit of criminal thugs.
I salute the fine officers who arrest violent criminals, but there is another kind of hero dedicated to preventing homicides and shootings. CNN Heroes called attention to him, and others like him, in a recent article.
In part, it recounted the story of Tard Carter, 34, of Baltimore, who is a convicted felon turned outreach worker. Carter goes into the most violent neighborhoods in Baltimore to keep people with histories of gang involvement, criminality and violence from shooting at each other.
Carter and his street outreach colleagues have no weapons or means of protection other than their reputation, authenticity and skills as "violence interrupters." They help settle disputes peacefully, but they also are much needed role models and mentors who steer youth away from gangs and toward opportunities to live productive, crime-free lives.
It sounds admirable, what these brave and committed people do. But can potential killers really be talked out of their initial violent impulses and intentions? My experience evaluating Baltimore's Safe Streets program, which aims to reduce shootings among people ages 14-25, has convinced me that the answer is definitely yes.
With the support of funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, my colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and I spent the past five years studying the work of outreach workers and violence interrupters like Carter, working in four Baltimore neighborhoods that have historically been among the city's most violent areas. Each of the intervention sites was in the top 10% of police posts in Baltimore for homicides and nonfatal shootings from 2003 to 2006.
Three of four neighborhoods in the program experienced reductions in gun violence significantly greater than those in other high-crime neighborhoods that were not involved in the program. After outreach staff mediated numerous gang conflicts during the initial five months Safe Streets was implemented in Carter's neighborhood, the community did not have a single homicide for nearly two years. This was a feat that had not been accomplished in recent memory. (The neighborhoods had had at least three homicides a year before the program. Sometimes more.)
Safe Streets replicates Chicago's CeaseFire program, in which an evaluation showed impressive reductions in gun violence in seven Chicago neighborhoods. The program saved taxpayers the costs of incarceration.
A common wisdom in police enforcement has long been that cities could curb gun violence through law enforcement crackdowns on drug dealers, since so much violent crime is related to drugs. But research has shown that these efforts are actually much more likely to increase than decrease violence. Government officials have begun to realize that billions of dollars spent fighting a war on drugs has not been responsible for curbing addiction or reducing violence.
Law enforcement efforts targeted at violent gun offenders are often effective and vital to keeping communities safe. But public health initiatives such as CeaseFire and Safe Streets are necessary complements to law enforcement. These programs prevent violence before it occurs in the first place.
Homicide is the second leading cause of death for young people in the United States, and the leading cause of death among young black males. The social cost of gun violence in the United States has been estimated to be $100 billion annually. To save lives and reduce these costs, we must invest in effective violence prevention programs.
Regrettably, some communities that have been implementing Ceasefire have seen their funding cut and programs eliminated. The CDC is an important source of funding for such programs and for the research that determines which strategies are most effective.
In light of this, it is disappointing that last week the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee voted to eliminate the CDC's entire budget for youth violence prevention. This is short-sighted thinking that will keep heroes like Tard Carter -- whose job still survives -- from interrupting the cycle of violence in communities across the country and will stall progress toward an array of other efforts to prevent youth violence. Congress allocates billions of dollars to federal law enforcement against drug traffickers each year.
By reallocating only a tiny fraction of those funds to continue CDC's implementation and evaluation of prevention programs, Congress could really have a positive impact on youth violence.


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In this Heidelberg museum you can discover the many sides of the extraordinary Carl Bosch, famous for the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis.
This process enabled the production of nitrogen fertiliser on an industrial scale and heralded a revolution for agriculture. The museum shows the public figure who was chairman of BASF and later the chemical company IG Farben as well as the private man renowned for his legendary butterfly and beetle collections, his passion for astronomy and his role as cofounder of Heidelberg Zoo.
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There are many professionals who want to go back to school. There are also people who did not do well on high school who like to go back to school. But there are many reasons that they could not do what they wish for. That is why online universities became popular recently. You can earn degree through enrolling and learning with online schools such as the University of Phoenix campus. This is one of the famous schools that you can find many feedbacks. Here are the few of them that helps you decide whether to attend this school or not.
What are the benefits you can get?
1. The University of Phoenix online is focused on the non regular technique for coaching. They think that you will have a active lifestyle. Easy for those college students that have jobs.
2. They do not have the stringent entry requirements and does not require entrance test. Those students who weren't achieving a lot on high school can offer the second chance to be on university.
3. The courses are a little more about real-world knowledge and hands on.
4. You may deal with college students that are also aligned on your course that are more mature that could be a good network source of opportunities.
What are the drawbacks of the school?
1. The university promoted the team effort which fits effectively on the majority of from the students. However can you imagine if there are several who are not straight into this design? This can be a drawback on that university student.
2. The rapid pace of training of University of Phoenix online do not work for all.
3. The mood and also the experience to be on standard school are displaced despite the fact that there are several adult college students who are able to deal with the Ecampus.
Have you already decide now? This University of Phoenix review might help you.


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Travel to Croatia
Swimming and seafood, art and archipelagos
Despite being one of Europe's most fashionable places to visit, Croatia doesn't feel like a place that has been thoroughly worked over by the tourist industry. Though development continues apace along the more commercialized stretches of the coast, Croatian tourism has spun off in a number of positive directions. Whether backpackers or touring families, long-distance cyclists, yachters or spa-hotel surfers, all travellers have seen a big leap forward in the range and quality of what the country has to offer.
A renewed respect for natural ingredients has become the watchword of Croatian cuisine, with locally sourced foodstuffs, wines and olive oils standing up increasingly well to globalization. Croatia has a growing reputation for niche festivals – not just in the party-the-weekend-away music events held on beaches and in abandoned factories and ancient sea-forts up and down the coast, but also in the mushrooming number of arts festivals and small-town cultural shindigs. And in Zagreb and elsewhere, a raft of new galleries and art attractions has given the country a cool and contemporary sheen.
Croatia is blessed with a wealth of natural riches, boasting almost 2000km of rocky, indented shore and more than a thousand islands, many blanketed in luxuriant vegetation. Even during the heavily visited months of July and August there are still enough off-the-beaten-track islands, quiet coves and stone-built fishing villages to make you feel as if you're visiting Europe at its most unspoiled. There's plenty in the way of urbane glamour too, if that's what you're after, with swanky hotels, yacht-filled harbours and cocktail bars aplenty – especially in à-la-mode destinations such as Dubrovnik and Hvar. Wherever you go though you'll find that Croatia retains an appeal for independent travellers that's in short supply at more package-oriented destinations elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Most budget and mid-range accommodation is still in the form of private rooms and apartments, and there has been an explosion in the number of backpacker-friendly hostel-type establishments in the major cities.
The country has certainly come a long way since the early 1990s, when within the space of half a decade – almost uniquely in contemporary Europe – it experienced the collapse of communism, a war of national survival and the securing of independence. Two decades on, visitors will be struck by the tangible sense of pride that independent statehood has brought. National culture is a far from one-dimensional affair, however, and much of the country's individuality is due to its geographical position straddling the point at which the sober central European virtues of hard work and order collide with the spontaneity, vivacity and taste for the good things in life that characterize the countries of southern Europe – a cultural blend of Mitteleuropa and Mediterranean that gives Croatia its particular flavour. Not only that, but the country also stands on one of the great fault lines of European civilization, the point at which the Catholicism of Central Europe meets the Islam and Orthodox Christianity of the East. Though Croats traditionally see themselves as a Western people, distinct from the other South Slavs who made up the former state of Yugoslavia, many of the hallmarks of Balkan culture – patriarchal families, hospitality towards strangers and a fondness for grilled food – are as common in Croatia as in any other part of southeastern Europe, suggesting that the country's relationship with its neighbours is closer than many Croats may admit.
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Join us for monthly Hack Days - time dedicated to building, learning and tinkering in a collaborative setting. Whether you are ready to build a new feature, want to improve your coding skills, or explore design thinking, Hack Days are a great way to get in the habit of building. Plus, it's a chance to meet more members of the startup community, outside of head-down & focus work-time, and we provide loads of coffee & lunch.
Requirements: Idea or project to work on (even a class assignment), software or hardware focused, all skill levels welcome.
Equipment Available: littleBits, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Bluetooth beacon, RFID kit, and Leap Motion. (Ask a Startup Team Member if you would like to access any of these resources.)
Still wondering if Hack Day is for you? Our advice is to come down and give it a try! For expert and intermediate level participants, it's an opportunity to get feedback on your work and spend time on passion products. For beginners, it's a great way to dedicate time to learn a new skill.
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Anthony Kim has not exactly been tearing up the PGA Tour recently.
He's played in six tournaments in 2012 and made just one cut. The seventh-year pro, who had entered 2011 as a top-10 finisher in 20 Tour events, has not won since April 4, 2010 at the Shell Houston Open. He missed the cut in 14 of 26 tournaments a year ago.
Thursday it looked like things might turn around, at least for a day. Kim started on the back nine at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and blistered the course for an opening 9-hole score of 6-under-par 32, including a hole-in-one on the par-3, 200-yard No. 17 at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge.
The eagle ace put him four strokes ahead of the rest of the morning players and things were looking up.
"I had a couple of 3-putts, I think two or three 3-putts," Kim said of his round. "I haven't felt that comfortable from the first tee in a long time. I've been running my head into a brick wall. So, I moved away from the brick wall and now I can swing and make some birdies out here."
Kim, who lives in Dallas, said he didn't even see the hole-in-one.
"Well, I really don't know how to explain it," Kim said. "I think Zach said it went in and I looked over and it was missing. It's been a while. Hitting the green has been an issue, so making it in the hole is nice."
He did struggle to finish up the round, however, finishing bogey, bogey to fall into the traffic jam at 3-under-par 69.
It wasn't the only ace on the day as Ryan Moore carded a late hole-in-one of the par-3, 200-yard No. 7 hole. Moore, however, was only able to get in at 1-under par 71.


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Student Profile: Elena Noel
"One of my main reasons for choosing CSB/SJU was its liberal arts education. I wanted to attend a college where I could explore and expand my dancing, music and art, and still not have to give up my passion for science. I needed to be somewhere I could do all of it. CSB/SJU was the perfect choice."
Elena Noel
Trinidad and Tobago
Major: Biology/Pre-medicine, Minor: Hispanic Studies
What are some of the campus activities in which you are involved?
There are a lot to list and there are some that have not even been started yet and I probably even forgot some. I'm sure I'll be taking advantage of more volunteer/involvement opportunities this semester but here are some that are on the list so far:
- Co-chair of the Archipelago Association (a Caribbean club on campus)
- Co-chair of Cultural Fusion
- Student Activities Representative on Joint Club Board (JCB)
- Festival of Cultures for the past 3 years from Fall 2007 (very active - co-hosted the fashion show, part of planning board, performed, modeled cultural wear, part of both Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana's booths)
- International Student Orientation Leader
- International Student Mentor
- Retreat on Race and Ethnicity (RORE) -participant in the Summer 2008 program
- RORE Student Group Leader (SGL) in the Fall 2009 program
Wow, that's quite a list! What do you gain from being involved?
As far as skills gained from them I think that they have helped me a lot with effective communication. I am able to relate my ideas and opinions in a way that is very clear and can be understood by different types of people. I believe I've improved my communication. I think also I've developed as a leader. A lot of the things I've been involved in require me to take a leadership role. I think because of that I've been able to understand my strengths and weaknesses as a leader and make improvements. I think I'm also developing my skills in interacting with different types of people as these involvement opportunities require me to interact with very diverse people. I'm learning the benefits and advantages of teamwork.
How do you feel CSB/SJU achieves global awareness?
I think that at CSB/SJU global awareness is achieved in many ways. The large population of international students (being one myself) is a good example. I think it leads to a more diverse campus and it allows students to be able to work with people who are from a different cultural background than their own. This helps students to be able to communicate across cultures and attempt to understand and especially appreciate different cultures and people. Another great example is the Study abroad opportunities available on campus for students. There are many programs that cater to students with different interests. I think that when students take advantage of study abroad and are exposed to another culture first hand they are definitely becoming more aware and appreciative of the diversity of the world.
Why did you choose CSB/SJU?
One of my main reasons for choosing CSB/SJU was its liberal arts education. I was so impressed by the liberal arts program the school had to offer. While I love science and would like to have a career in medicine in the future, I was not prepared to have that be my sole focus. I was always interested in other things like music, dance, and art (specifically drawing). I wanted to attend a college where I could explore and expand those talents and still not have to give up my passion for science. The thought of having to give up dancing, music or art was just devastating. I needed to be somewhere I could do all of it. CSB/SJU was the perfect choice. Here I can have a biochemistry lab one period followed by an art class the next.


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I am not sure if this area is the correct one to post an example to, so please excuse me if I am posting to the wrong one...
Anyway with XEP5 I stiched 6 images, using the panorama studio. After that part had been done I choose to export the panorama to a Flash file. The output was a HTML file which worked fine as a stand alone panorama.
However I wanted to add something more, so I added:
- Google Maps with at marker pointing to the spot where the image was taken
- Added a small description
- Added some EXIF data from the images
- Added the option for people to say "I like this" using a Facebook widget.
Finally after some HTML/CSS hardcoding I came up with something which was okay I think. I hope you can be inspired by my site
Find it here: http://www.netsi.dk/Panorama/hahnenklee.html